Financial Statements
−Removed: audited financial statements required by Regulation S-X, with the report of the Trust’s independent registered public accounting
−Removed: firm, appear on pages F-1 to F-14 of this Report and are incorporated in this Item 8 by reference to such information.
−Removed: Merk Gold Trust
−Removed: Statements of Operations
−Removed: the year ended January 31, 2021
+Added: The audited financial statements required by Regulation
+Added: S-X, with the report of the Trust’s independent registered public accounting firm, appear on pages F-1 to F-14 of this Report and
+Added: are incorporated in this Item 8 by reference to such information.
+Added: VanEck Merk Gold Trust
+Added: Quarterly Statements of Operations
+Added: For the year ended January 31, 2022
Three Months ended
8 unchanged sentences
(23,610,080 )
+Added: (15,451,298 )
+Added: (18,669,013 )
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) from operations
(23,560,040 )
+Added: (15,439,386 )
+Added: (16,912,157 )
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets resulting from operations
$ (23,829,040 )
−Removed: Merk Gold Trust
−Removed: Statements of Operations
−Removed: the year ended January 31, 2020
−Removed: Three Months ended
−Removed: Three Months ended
−Removed: Three Months ended
+Added: $ (15,768,959 )
+Added: $ (18,183,432 )
+Added: VanEck Merk Gold Trust
+Added: Quarterly Statements of Operations
+Added: For the year ended January 31, 2021
Sponsor’s fees
4 unchanged sentences
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment in gold bullion
+Added: (18,495,904 )
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) from operations
+Added: (17,502,047 )
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets resulting from operations
$ (17,754,861 )
−Removed: Merk Gold Trust
−Removed: Statements of Operations
−Removed: the year ended January 31, 2019
+Added: $ (4,708,202 )
+Added: VanEck Merk Gold Trust
+Added: Quarterly Statements of Operations
+Added: For the year ended January 31, 2020
Three Months ended
8 unchanged sentences
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment in gold bullion
−Removed: (10,431,392 )
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) from operations
−Removed: (10,431,392 )
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets resulting from operations
$ (4,959,964 )
−Removed: $ (10,576,281 )
−Removed: $ (2,907,415 )
−Removed: Merk Gold Trust
−Removed: Statements of Operations
−Removed: the year ended January 31, 2018
+Added: VanEck Merk Gold Trust
+Added: Quarterly Statements of Operations
+Added: For the year ended January 31, 2019
Three Months ended
8 unchanged sentences
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment in gold bullion
+Added: (10,431,392 )
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) from operations
+Added: (10,431,392 )
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets resulting from operations
−Removed: Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
−Removed: have been no changes in accountants and no disagreements with accountants during the year ended January 31, 2021.
+Added: $ (3,581,219 )
+Added: $ (10,576,281 )
+Added: $ (2,907,415 )
+Added: Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants
+Added: on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
+Added: There have been no changes in accountants and
+Added: no disagreements with accountants during the year ended January 31, 2022.
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.